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title: "Got your music store butting into my library"
date: 2006-01-11T20:31:50-05:00
url: https://blog.lmorchard.com/2006/01/11/got-your-music-store-butting-into-my-library/
author: Les Orchard
tags: [asides]
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# Got your music store butting into my library

New iTunes update, v6.0.2.  First impression:  Apple, get your damn music store out of my personal library.  When I use the browsing interface—as I usually do—it takes up a full third of my visible space on this 12" screen.  The only saving grace is that at least the store pane disappears when I view my iPod library.  

Oh!  I just discovered that I can get rid of the pane if I disable the Music Store altogether using the Parental controls under preferences.  Well, that's gone now... I guess this impulse-enabling "improvement" was a shot aimed at their own feet:  If I ever want to buy from iTMS again, I'll have to go through the trouble to re-enable it.

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                <a href="#comment-221087016" class="permalink"><time datetime="2006-01-12T01:55:12">2006-01-12T01:55:12</time></a>
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            <div class="content"><p>Like you, I was horrified. But there is a new button along the right bottom of iTunes that hides the dratted quick store window.</p></div>
            
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                    <a class="avatar image" rel="nofollow" 
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                <a href="#comment-221087018" class="permalink"><time datetime="2006-01-12T01:55:21">2006-01-12T01:55:21</time></a>
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            <div class="content"><p>Just select "Hide MiniStore" from the Edit menu.</p></div>
            
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                <a href="#comment-221087019" class="permalink"><time datetime="2006-01-12T02:03:05">2006-01-12T02:03:05</time></a>
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            <div class="content"><p>If you want the less extreme options, there's a button in the bottom right toolbar that disables it, as well as a menu option under the Edit menu.</p></div>
            
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                <a href="#comment-221087020" class="permalink"><time datetime="2006-01-12T02:41:06">2006-01-12T02:41:06</time></a>
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            <div class="content"><p>Huh.  What do you know?  I missed both the button and the Edit menu item and looked for it first under preferences.  Eh, I think I'll leave the store disabled.  It's been awhile since I last swallowed the DRM and bought a track from there anyway.</p></div>
            
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                    <a class="avatar image" rel="nofollow" 
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                <a href="#comment-221087021" class="permalink"><time datetime="2006-01-12T19:19:30">2006-01-12T19:19:30</time></a>
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            <div class="content"><p>I think your reaction might have been similar to mine, which was "WTF?  <em>Get your ads off my computer!</em> Crap, how do I turn this off?  No, not there... not there... ah, that works."</p>

<p>I didn't turn off the music store though, because it removes the drilldown arrows that take you to a particular artist or album.  I use those all the time, although with the help of <a href="http://www.command-tab.com/index.php/invert-itunes-music-store-links/" rel="nofollow">this tip</a> to make it so I don't have to option-click on them.  </p>

<p>No idea why they turn off a useful library feature when you get rid of the music store though.</p></div>
            
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            <div class="content"><p>I discovered that if I turn off the music store in Parental Prefences, then turn it back on again, on its return the obnoxious ministore is not present. (But the edit-menu item may be the optimal route.)</p></div>
            
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